The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-10
ABOUFPLAYSAND PLAYERS
LAWRENCE BARRETT TO PRO
BUCE CREME"
At NIblo's, New York, With Grand
Spectacular Effects-RObert
MsLtelPB Great Success.

PREPARATIONS being made for the pro-
duction of "RienZi, the last of the
Tribunes, at Niblo's, where it will
be given May I'd with unusual splen-
dor of scenery and costumes and
large auxiliary force. As a spectacu-
lar production the play will be sure
to attract general attention. Mr..
Barrett will then make his first APP
pearance in New York as Rienzi, a
part in which he has been unusually
successful in other cities.
The floral carnival now in progress
at the Old London Street is the first
display of rare flowers and plants
ever seen in this country and is at
tracing crowds. Tomorrow, Thurs
day, will BIO professional day" and
special invitations to attend have
been sent to Wilson Barrett, Miss
Eastlake, Frederick Warde, Miss
Agnes Booth, Misses Annie Robe,
Pauline Hall, Marie Jansen, Lille
Grub, Maude Harrison, W. j.
Seaman, Edward Harrigan, John
Gilbert, Kirle Bellew, Helen Dauv-
ray and other prominent actors and
actresses.
There remain four weeks of jim,
the Penman, at the Madison Square,
with an interruption on April 18th
for the company's Washington per-
nance in aid of the Actors Fund.
On May I'd, they will go to Boston
for month, and after that they will
travel westward to San Francisco.
Richard Mansfield will take the
Home Theater early, June %, for
the summer, and he will surely try
Russell Sullivan's adoption of Robert
Love Stevenson novel, "Dr. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde" One of the plays
announced as ready for trial at the
next authors matinee" is said to be
George Parsons Lathrops dramat-
izatiOn OF Tennyson's Elaine"
Helen Dauvray closes her season
at the Lyceum Theater April Both.
On May I'd, Manager Daniel Froh:
man will produce a new play called
1.-The Highest Bidder" The prin-
cipal members of the Lyceum stock
company for next season thus far
engaged are Herbert Kelley, Henry
Miller, Nelson Wheatcroft, W. j.
LeMoyne, Charles Walcot, Charles
Dickson, William A. Faversham,
Walter 9. Bellows, Georgia Cayvan,
Louise Dillon, Grace Henderson,
Alice Crowther, Mrs. Charles Wal
cot. David Belasco will be the stage
manager, and Henry @. De Mile
will assist Mr.. Frohman in the liter
airy department. Belasco and De
Mile are at work on a play Of Amer
lean lite for the opening of the
regular season in October. "The
Great Pink Pearl" will serve as a
preliminary in September.
The following attractions are an
nounced for next week in New York:
"Erminie" at the Casino; "McNoo-
neys Visit" at Harrigan's Park
Theater; the Duff Opera Company
in "A Trip to Africa, at the Stan
dard; N. 9. Goodwin in big Pony"
at the Bijou Opera House THE
Dom ini's Daughter" at Wallack $ {;
Tanning of the Shrew" at Days;
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee Rankin in 1.-THE
Golden Giant" at the Fifth Avenue /;
Dockstader's Minstrels; Barnum and
Forepaugh's circus at the Madison
Square Garden; Helen Dauvray in
"The Love Chase" at the Lyceum
Jim, the Penman," at the Madison
Square; Nine. Janauschek at the
Union Square; Denman Thompson
in 1.-THE Old Homestead" at the
Fourteenth Street Theater; Wilson
Barrett at the Star: vaudeville at
Tony Pastors; the W. II. Powers
Company in 1.-The Ivy Leaf at the
WINDSOR; Conreid's Gypsy Baron
Opera Company at the Peoples
Adelaide Thornton in 1.-The Galley
Slave" at Poole's; Pat Rooney
company at the Third Avenue, and
the Kiralfy's "Black Crook al
Niblo's.
Wilson Barrctt's boy hamlet has
reached New York.
Geraldine Ulmer sails for Europe
Saturday, April 23d.
"Cordelias Aspirations" will be
revived at Harrigan's Park Theater
April 18th.
Agnes Herndon is in the last week
of her engagement at the Union
Square Theater.
Frederick Warde played to Sl3, 00(
last week at the Academy Of Music
in Philadelphia.
Miss Adele Paine has Joined the
Frederick Warde Company for the
spring and simmer season.
Agnes Herndon presents the Com
mercial Tourists Bride" in Phlla'
delphis, April 18th, at McCaullt
Opera House.
The Kiralfy's will produce Sar
dou's LA Crocodile" in this country
next season, with Eleanor Carey IL
the leading part.
The next regular season at the
Fifth Avenue Theater begins August
29th, with John Y. Raymond, toll
lowed by Mrs. Langtry.
Miss Eugene Blair, leading lady
of the Frederick Warde Company, is
spending Holy Week at her house in
Brooklyn.
A prominent New York manager
is said to have dropped a large sum
of money in the stock OF the III
CristO mine within the past few days
The Strobridge Lithograph Com
pany are at work on some unusually
fine printing for Miss Augusta Van
Doren to be used by her during heI
starring tour in charlotte Russo.
A new rose called the ivan
Doren," named after Miss Augusta
Van Doren, the handsome young
actress, has Just been put upon the
market and is beginning to attract
fashionable attention.
Robert b. Mantell closes his first
starring tour April 231 in New
Haven. His season has been sue
cessful one in every way and money